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Trusted O'Day plenty when he loaded the bases with no one out several games ago.

Explain why O'Day didn't start the 8th inning tonight. And why Buck has gone to Britton in the 8th inning yet again. Very unconventional in today's baseball for a closer. That's why I feel Buck is not comfortable with O'Day or anyone else for that matter.

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Indeed. I was more focusing on the pitchers tonight, but for all of the analysis and expertise put into pitchers, it can be a real crapshoot as to which ones put it all together at the ML level. Matusz was supposed to be a #3 starter at worst?.ended up a loogy in his prime years.

And some of us have the gall to huff and snort on draft day when the front office selects guys who weren't high enough on ONE GUY's all-important list of players that we've never seen nor heard of.

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